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experiment was incompatible with the scientific facts in a num-
ber of ways. Considering the points that demonstrate the scien-
tific invalidity of the experiment, it is clear that scientific objec-
tivity was not its aim.

1. The "primordial atmosphere" in Miller's setup did
not reflect the facts. Actual conditions of the primordial at-
mosphere do not permit the formation of amino acids and
other building blocks essential for life.
When Oparin proposed his theory of chemical evolution,
he suggested that the atmosphere on the primordial Earth was

very different from what it is today. 112 Stanley Miller sought to
recreate these primordial atmospheric assumptions set out in
Oparin's book in 1936. Therefore, in seeking to reproduce the
formation of amino acids, Miller assumed that the primordial

atmosphere consisted of methane (CH ), ammonia (NH ) and
4 3
hydrogen (H ), as hypothesized by Oparin. In addition, he sug-
2
gested that the Earth's atmosphere did not contain free oxygen.
But in the years that followed his experiment, new geochemical
evidence and experiments performed in the light of them clear-
ly revealed that Oparin and Miller's estimates were inaccurate.

On the contrary, the evidence has now demonstrated that the
dominant gasses in the primordial atmosphere were carbon
dioxide, nitrogen and water vapor plus some oxygen; there was
very little, if any methane, ammonia or hydrogen.
This information showed that Miller's and similar experi-

ments had been built on false assumptions. In any case, howev-
er, Miller had deliberately used these gasses. His objective was
to prove experimentally the chemical evolution scenario pro-
posed by Oparin 1924. For that reason, in determining the pa-
rameters of his experiment, Miller set out to duplicate the con-

ditions Oparin had assumed. In fact, his aim was not to create